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Recent Examples of cast about
As for the 300 claim, there don't appear to be any stories from the cast about a rock-in-the-underpants portion of the auditions.
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026
As the play flounders, director Jo Bonney casts about for solutions.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
An engineer named Eiji Nakatsu cast about for a way to make the trains quiet.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
On the subject of creating the film, Deckelmeyer asked the cast about their unusual strings of accidents on set.
—Scott Huver, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Mar. 2026
As the play flounders, director Jo Bonney casts about for solutions.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
An engineer named Eiji Nakatsu cast about for a way to make the trains quiet.
—Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
On the subject of creating the film, Deckelmeyer asked the cast about their unusual strings of accidents on set.
—Scott Huver, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
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But the companies are now looking increasingly to expand the market for weight-loss drugs that have revolutionized the pharmaceutical space in recent years.—
Elsa Ohlen,
CNBC,
18 May 2026
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The 76ers looked tired, injured and shallow, relying on only six guys for most of a short series.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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For one, tech behemoth Microsoft reported better-than-expected quarterly results recently and told investors that capital expenditures for the year will reach $190 billion due to soaring memory costs.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
18 May 2026
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Magazines — particularly ones that center fashion or elements of culture that have little to do with sports — have been go-to spaces for tennis stars looking to reach a broad audience and perhaps cast themselves as more than just athletes.—
Ava Wallace,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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Students at a California elementary school are banding together to raise awareness and money to save the bald eagle hunting area at San Bernardino National Forest's Big Bear Valley, home of the viral bald eagles Jackie and Shadow.—
Yi-Jin Yu,
ABC News,
14 May 2026
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Becky Hill reads Alex Murdaugh 2023 guilty verdict In 2023, Murdaugh was convicted of gunning down his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, at the family’s hunting estate in 2021.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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“Cast about.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cast%20about. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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